"Speak the truth and shame the devil."

Proverb on evil
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"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."

Charron, Pierre on pleasure
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"The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord."

Bible on servants   

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."

Bataille, Georges on pleasure
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

Epictetus on pleasure
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on infatuation
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on infatuation
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-control
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."

Lee, Robert E. on self-control
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

Charron, Pierre on deception
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

Homer on deception
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."

Bacon, Francis on advice
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

Churchill, Winston on advice
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"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."

Herbert, Jack on advice   

"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."

Cicero, Marcus T. on eloquence   

"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on eloquence
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"Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts."

Buddha on vigilance
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"He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard."

Syrus, Publilius on vigilance   

"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."

Allen, James on peace
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on hope
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

Dickens, Charles on hope
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably."

Channing, William Ellery on hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on peace
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"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."

Cleveland, Grover on peace
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