Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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Saint Augustine

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

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Chris Evert

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

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Karl von Bonstetten

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

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Harry S Truman

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

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Bruce Grocott

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

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Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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Voltaire, Letter (1769)

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

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Cornelius Tacitus

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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