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Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts
Integrity has no need of rules
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them, defects which it is well not to correct
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes
Common natures pay with what they do, noble ones with what they are
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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