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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we read more
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly read more
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.