#will

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. ↗

— Aeschylus

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#does #itself #man #reckon #self-will

Please all, and you will please none. ↗

— Aesop

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. ↗

— Aesop

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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. ↗

— Aesop

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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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