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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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