If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

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First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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