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 The nature of business is swindling.  Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both. Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. Fortune helps the brave. - Virgil It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. 
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