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- Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
- Johann Georg Zimmermann
- The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
- Author Unknown
- To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
- Tillotson
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Rambler
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Sterne
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
- Author Unknown
- The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
- Boileau
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