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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself

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