"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

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"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

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"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."

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"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

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"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."

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"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

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"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

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"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."

"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."

"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."

"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."