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 The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"  This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. Human history is in essence a history of ideas. We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. If I try to be like him, who will be like me? Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. I never lost a game. I just ran out of time. He who lives in the present lives in eternity. The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. 
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