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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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