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- Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- Halifax
- Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Nietzsche
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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