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- 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)
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis
- Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
- Baltasar Gracian
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