"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."

Lie, Sleep

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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."

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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

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"When desire dies, fear is born."

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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

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