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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
 
Grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
 
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
 
The more you have invested in your religion, the more you will be motivated to protect that investment.
 
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
 
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
 
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
 
Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
 
Effort supposes resistance.
 
Works of genius have this in common, that even when they vividly capture the nothingness of things, when they clearly show and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life, and when they express the most terrible despair, nonetheless to a great soul -- though he find himself in a state of extreme duress, disillusion, nothingness, noia, and despair of life, or in the bitterest and deadliest misfortunes (caused by deep feelings or whatever) -- these works always console and rekindle enthusiasm; and though they treat or represent only death, they give back to him, at least temporarily, that life which he had lost.
 
Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.
 
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
 
The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.
 
Our faith is faith in some one else's faith.
 
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
 
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
 
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
 
The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
 
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
 
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
 
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