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Character is what can do without success

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Character is that which can do without success.

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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new e...more

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Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

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Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your...more

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek ver...more

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.