He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
It is right to give every man his due.
Plato
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Aristotle
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.
Terry Pratchett
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
What once were vices are manners now.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
A great fortune is a great slavery.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
Blaise Pascal
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