"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   

"In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life."

Sizoo, Joseph R. on life   

"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
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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
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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 evil
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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   

"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 action
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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
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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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