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"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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"One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."

"The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become."

"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."

"Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"

"Failures make character, not success."
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"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."


"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."


"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."


"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient."


"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."


"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."
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