"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Gratitude
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"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."

Proverb, Chinese on Promises
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

Proverb, Chinese on Failure
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on Happiness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on Fools and Foolishness
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on Adversity
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"Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things."

Proverb, Chinese on Discontent
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"In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part."

Bruce, Michael on Jesus Christ
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"In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life."

Sizoo, Joseph R. on Life and Living
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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

Sappho on Beauty
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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Kindness
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on Life and Living
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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Punishment
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on Vision
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"

Churchill, Winston on Wives
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on Words
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"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."

Churchill, Winston on Vengeance
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"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

Churchill, Winston on Death and Dying
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"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Churchill, Winston on Achievement
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Deception
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"I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Devil
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last."

Churchill, Winston on Compromise
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"Love can do much, but duty more."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Duty
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Doubt
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"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."

Caesar, Julius on Worry
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"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

Caesar, Julius on Men
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"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Acton, Lord on Satisfaction
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on Power
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on Power
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Government
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"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Flattery
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on Time and Time Management
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on Success
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Love
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on Hope
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on Hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Hope
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Hope
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"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

Democritus on Dishonesty
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