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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Misery loves company.

John Ray

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Voltaire

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

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The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Aristotle

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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

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