Quote #1377
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must...
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose...
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about...
Quote #25658
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before...
Quote #23217
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness...
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he...
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It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already...
Quote #16742
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are...
Quote #7445
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Quote #14687
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide...