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- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
- Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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