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 If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. - Socrates  Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. (Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week; the sadness, the joy, . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. Action is the antidote to despair. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable. The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done. God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do. All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them! 
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