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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Siddhartha
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
The Book of Disquiet
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever
It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man
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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."
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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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