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Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
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PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
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LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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TANYA MASSE Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
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AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD Maxim 1:
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FEREIDOON YAZDI Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
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LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
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MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL That’s not fair!

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TAURUS MORGAN Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
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When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
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JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
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GERMANY KENT It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.
PATTI DIGH To live simply by going through the motions is not living
N. S. COLE Love is holy.
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E. LOCKHART Maxim 18:
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HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
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Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule ...
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2 birds 1 stone
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MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
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