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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.

No rose without a thorn.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything; one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.


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