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 The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. - Epicurus  Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now. Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. Between friends there is no need of justice. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something. That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. We talk on principle, but we act on interest. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans. 
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