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Jean de LaBruyere: There are but...

Jean de LaBruyere: There are but...

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of...

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Baltasar Gracian: Tis by no...

Baltasar Gracian: Tis by no...

'Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

Source: In...

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Baltasar Gracian: To be at...

Baltasar Gracian: To be at...

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has...

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Baltasar Gracian: True knowledge lies...

Baltasar Gracian: True knowledge lies...

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: It is not...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: It is not...

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: The man who...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: The man who...

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: We are more...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: We are more...

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from...

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James Harrington: No man can...

James Harrington: No man can...

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what...

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John Keble: As fire kindled...

John Keble: As fire kindled...

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

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John Keble: The trivial round,...

John Keble: The trivial round,...

The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask;
Room to deny ourselves; a road
To...

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Saint Augustine: The world is...

Saint Augustine: The world is...

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.

Source: In The...

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Saint Augustine: Not the punishment...

Saint Augustine: Not the punishment...

Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Saint Augustine: There is something...

Saint Augustine: There is something...

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Source: The City...

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No matter how...

No matter how...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable...

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The hands of...

The hands of...

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so...

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I don't know...

I don't know...

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

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It's not the...

It's not the...

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Source: In Interview in...

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DEJEUNER, n. The...

DEJEUNER, n. The...

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,...

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Man cannot live...

Man cannot live...

Man cannot live by profit alone.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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