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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. ↗

— 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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ↗

— Jane Austen

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ↗

— Alfred Austin

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