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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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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.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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