Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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