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- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
- John Mitchell Mason
- Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- George Sand (1804 - 1876)
- The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
- Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
- Ecclesiastes
- Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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