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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?

W. Somerset Maugham

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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