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Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
I've learned only that you never say never.
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and, you know, I never even thanked her.
All men would be cowards if they durst.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.


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