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W. Somerset Maugham
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
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Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Richard Needham
A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody.
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Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Ideas won't keep something must be done about them.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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Susan Polis Schutz
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
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Claudianus
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
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Sir Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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Ene Riisna
A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.
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