Voltaire
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. Somerset Maugham
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
Chuck Palahniuk
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot