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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.


Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.


Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.


Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.


Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.


The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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