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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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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"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
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Perspective
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
Man
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Wisdom
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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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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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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Personal Development
"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."
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Personal Development
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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Personal Development
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
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