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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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