Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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