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- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Nietzsche
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