"What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember."

Seneca on suffering   

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca on weakness
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"That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen. "

Plato on uncategorised   

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

Plato on worry
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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on force
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"Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners."

Stewart, Jimmy on audiences
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"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Glien, Germain G. on listening
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"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."

Twain, Mark on popularity
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"One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so."

Naisbitt, John on commitment
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

Seneca on atheism
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"Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does."

Dane, Frank on home
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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

Darrow, Clarence on truth
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

Proverb, Turkish on truth
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."

Teresa of Avila, St. on courage
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

Iacocca, Lee on friends and friendship
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on friends and friendship
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake."

Gallwey, Timothy on performance   

"I have just about all I can take of myself."

Behrman, S. on self-respect
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"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on money
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Watts, Alan W. on zen
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"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

Bristol, Claude M. on obstacles
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"Listen. Don't explain or justify."

Dyer, William G. on listening
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"People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on time
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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

Herbert, George on compromise
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"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits."

Terkel, Studs on vision   

"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on control
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

Bradley, Francis H. on scandal   

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

Fuller, Thomas on facts
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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