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"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
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"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
Time
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
Universe
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Mistake
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
Life
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
Man
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
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