Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Envy creates silent enemies.

However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

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