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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.