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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
[ Will ]
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
[ Health ]
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
[ Example ]
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
[ Individuality ]
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
[ Contentment ]
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
[ Danger ]
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
[ Economy ]
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
[ Conversation ]
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
[ Suffering ]
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
[ Suffering ]
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
[ Difficulties ]
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What once were vices are manners now.
[ Manners ]
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
[ Expectation ]
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
[ Pain ]
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
[ Pain ]
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
[ Quotations ]
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
[ Gratitude ]
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
[ Gratitude ]
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
[ Gratitude ]
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