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"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."
"Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel."
"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."
"He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity-proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive-a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?"
"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
"In anything you set out to do, don't try your best. Do your best."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."
"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."
"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
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