"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

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"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

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"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."

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"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

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"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."

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"O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good."

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"No one is happy all his life long."

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"How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die."

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"The coward despairs."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!"

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps."