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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."

"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."

"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."

"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."

"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
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