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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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: One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
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