"It pays to get drunk with the best people."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything."

Coty, Rene on understanding
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."

Lehrer, Tom on life
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"Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it."

Golas, Thaddeus on self-improvement
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

Cavour, Camillo Benso Conte Di on trust
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"I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible."

Russell, Bertrand on writers and writing
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on democracy   

"you can't control other people's actions/feelings, but you can control your own, so get over it.."

Unknown on feelings
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"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."

Cobbett, William on patience
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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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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"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world."

Seneca on age and aging   

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

Seneca on excellence
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"Do everything as in the eye of another."

Seneca on eyes
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"Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?"

Seneca on expectation   

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca on goals
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"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."

Seneca on gratitude
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"Life is warfare."

Seneca on life
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Seneca on adversity
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"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."

Seneca on service   

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"The worst old age is that of the mind."

Hazlitt, William on age and aging
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Dhammapada on action
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"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

Horton, Doug on heaven
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"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."

Hubbard, Elbert on genius
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"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Waitley, Denis on joy
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

West, Rebecca on feminism
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

West, Rebecca on gossip
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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