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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
Death
"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
Wealth
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Now
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
Life
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
Man
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
Harm
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Man
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
Achievement
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
Friendship
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
Friendship
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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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Personal Development
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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Personal Development
"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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Personal Development
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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Personal Development
"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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Personal Development
"It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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Personal Development
"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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Personal Development
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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Personal Development
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