You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror.

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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

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No noble man ever hated good wine.

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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

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