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S�bastien-Roch Chamfort
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest
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Lao-Tze
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
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Napoleon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny
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Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent
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Victor Hugo
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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Miguel Cervantes
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory
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Horace
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid
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Horace
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength
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Horace
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried
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Confucius
The cautious seldom err
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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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