I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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