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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.

Alain de Botton

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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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