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- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
- Marchioness Townsend
- You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
- John Viscount Morley, of Blackburn
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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