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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

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The United States does not torture.

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What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

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I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

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