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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
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The miserable are sacred.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always to an ungrateful man only once.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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