"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

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"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

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"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

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"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

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"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

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"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

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"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

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"For Time calls only once, and that determines all."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."