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 To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.  Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. Include me out. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. - Hesiod Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. - Bible An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you. I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view. The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. 
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