Never anticipate evils or, because you cannot have things exactly as you wish, make them out worse than they are, through mere spite and willfulness.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind.
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