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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
Personal Development
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
War
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
People
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Money
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
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