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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
"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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"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."
"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."
"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
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