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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.