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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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