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 Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"; God always answers with what we need.  Thales was asked what was most difficult to man; he answered: "To know one's self." - Diogenes God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. 'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight. Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. Such as we are made of, such we be. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence. If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. - Horace When the audience knows you know better, it's satire, but when they think you can't do any better, it's corn. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man. Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time. Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. 
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