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It�s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you�ll drift in that direction.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Siddhartha
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example
Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example
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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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