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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Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. ― Marcus Aurelius

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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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