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"To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
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"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
Wisdom
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Humor
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Life
"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy
"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."
Life
"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If."
Philosophy
"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
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"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Fear
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