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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by any force.
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
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The aim of a ship's captain is a successful voyage; a doctor's, health; a general's, victory. So the aim of our ideal statesman is the citizens' happy life--that is, a life secure in wealth, rich in resources, abundant in renown, and honorable in its moral character. That is the task which I wish him to accomplish--the greatest and best that any man can have.
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
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While there's life, there's hope.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
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