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 A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.  Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong. There is no hope but in prayer. Of all the young men in America, only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream. Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex. Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again. 
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