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 Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.  The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. Love is a kind of military service. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. What God is to the world, parents are to their children. - Philo There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. - Goethe It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. Out of difficulties grow miracles. 
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