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When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.
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It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
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God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
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Beauty least adorned is most adorned
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They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn.
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The best book is but the record of the best life.
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If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
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Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
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It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.
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The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
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Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
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Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.
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Obedience is not servility. On the contrary the servile are never rightly obedient.
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If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
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The will--the one thing it is most important to educate--we neglect.
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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
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What purifies the heart refines language.
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If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
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Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
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They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
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Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.
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As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind.
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
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If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful--it is enough that it is a truth.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.
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The smaller the company, the larger the conversation.
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Not to be able to utter one's thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
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