There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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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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I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

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If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself. – Rumi

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

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A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

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