Quote #5469
The gods help them that help themselves.
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in...
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who...
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to...
Quote #7741
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer...
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant...
Quote #12275
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model,...
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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I...
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If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither...