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Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Some fear the dark, I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Right is its own defense.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

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.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning and some of them many times over what do you find? That you can swim? Well life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.