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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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"Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy, so universal, so clear, so ancient, that it seems to come from God himself, like the light which we regard as the first of his works. Has he not given men self-love to secure their preservation; benevolence, beneficence, and virtue to control their self-love; the natural need to form a society; pleasure to enjoy, pain to warn us to enjoy in moderation, passions to spur us to great deeds, and wisdom to curb our passions?"
Philosophy
"I loved him as we always love for the first time, with idolatry and wild passion."
Love
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
God
"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
History
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
Positivity
"He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors."
Art
"Better is the enemy of good."
Enemy
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
Truth
"Business is the salt of life."
Business
"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
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"Reforms should begin at home and stay there."
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Personal Development
"One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year."
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Personal Development
"I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement."
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Personal Development
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
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Personal Development
"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
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Personal Development
"A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits."
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"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."
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"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."
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"The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to."
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"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
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