The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Without a purpose nothing should be done.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies... the real man.

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