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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ↗

— Jane Austen

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. ↗

— Jane Austen

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ↗

— Jane Austen

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

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