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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are...
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It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent...
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… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate,...
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Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you...
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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I?ll fight when needed, revel when there?s an occasion, mourn when there is grief,...
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we...