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"They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, captivity again and horsemeat! Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it's only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come."
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"To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life."

"Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win."

"It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."

"The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little."

"The content of a man is the life he possesses inside."

"If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."

"Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery."

"If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself."

"Every limitation must be overcome to realised the goal."
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening."

"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."

"To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them."
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