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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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Personal Development
"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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Personal Development
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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Personal Development
"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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Personal Development
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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Personal Development
"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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Personal Development
"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
Nature
"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir."
Power
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
Peace
"A bad peace is even worse than war."
Peace
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
Leadership
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
Truth
"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
Woman
"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
Friendship
"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."
Agreement
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