If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

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If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

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Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

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