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"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Wisdom
"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."
Education
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."
Freedom
"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."
Survival
"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
Purpose
"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
Hope
"Bear and forbear."
Self
"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials."
Knowledge
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Courage
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
Self-Control
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