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Haruki Murakami
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
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Leonardo da Vinci
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude
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Jean Racine
A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
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Baruch Spinoza
In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind
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Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted
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Publilius Syrus
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all
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Aristotle
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved
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Lucius Seneca
He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly
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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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