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- We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
- Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
- I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
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