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• "Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

• "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."

• "Nothing is worth more than this day."

• "Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."

• "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

• "In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."

• "He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

• " He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

• "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

• "Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

• "Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

• "Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens."

• "Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."

• "Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

• "We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

• "We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."

• "Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

• "To create something you must be something."

• "Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."

• "Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

• "The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."

• " Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

• "Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

• "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

• "The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

• "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

• "The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."

• "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

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