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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
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By theme : Thought   Wisdom  

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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By theme : Knowledge   Life   Wisdom  

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Jean de La Bruyere
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By theme : Person   Psychology  

No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once.
Decimus Junius Juvenal
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By theme : Behavior   Character   Person   Psychology  

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.
Victor Hugo
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By theme : Behavior   Love   Psychology  

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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By theme : Behavior   Person   Psychology  

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
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By theme : Behavior   Wisdom  

To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper.
Jean Paul Richter
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By theme : Love   Marriage   Wit  

How should we train memory to learn to forget?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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By theme : Wit  




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