Alfred A. Montapert

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

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Chinese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

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Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

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Nicolas Boileau

The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

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Ernest Fremont Title

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.

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Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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Juvenal

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

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Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

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Aristotle

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

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James Russell Lowell

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

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James Madison

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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