One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Friendship   
Beauty   
Understand   
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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Happiness   
Truth   
Lies   
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Life without the courage for death is slavery.
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Life   
Death   
Courage   
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Subject:
Happiness   
Courage   
Admire   
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Subject:
Happiness   
Future   
Present   
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Happiness   
Life   
Nature   
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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Happiness   
Life   
Fate & Destiny   
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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Nature   
Art   
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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Courage   
Adversity   
Struggle   
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It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
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Education   
Effort   
Work   
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger   
Death   
Thinking   
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Subject:
Reality   
Fear   
Imagination   
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Wisdom   
Happiness   
Power   
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Revenge   
Hate   
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Fate & Destiny   
Nature   
God   
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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Creativity   
Nature   
World   
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Wisdom   
Religion   
Politics   
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Subject:
Life   
Difficulty   
Human Nature   
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Subject:
Life   
Reality   
Time   
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Subject:
Character   
Peace   
Morality   
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