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Sylvia Plath
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Cesare Pavese
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference
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Leonardo da Vinci
He who walks straight rarely falls
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Epictetus
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly
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Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public
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Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
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Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite
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Abraham Lincoln
Everybody likes a compliment
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Abraham Lincoln
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed
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Abraham Lincoln
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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