Indolence is the sleep of mind.

- Valvenargus -

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Sels-restraint and not indulgence must be regarded as the law of life.

- M. Gandhi, Self, Restraint -

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Temperance and industry are the two real physicians of mankind.

- Rawseau, Emile -

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What are we ? How unequal ! Now we soarAnd now we sink.

- Young, Nights Thoughts -

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No niggardly acceptance of the inevitable will appear pleasing to God.

- M. Gandhi, Young India -

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Leaving behind them horrible dispraise.

- Dante, Infernot -

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

- Wordsworth -

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At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

- Shakespeare, As You Like It -

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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion ?

- Old Testament, Job -

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Let him that would move the world first move himself.

- Socrates -

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Influence is the exhalation of character.

- M.W. Taylor -

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child !

- Shakespeare, King Lear -

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The goods received, the river is forgotten.

- Congereve, To Lord Halifax -

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Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

- Colton -

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No greater shame to man than inhumanity.

- Spencer -

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Inhibitions imposed from without rarely succeded, but when they are self-imposed, they have decidedly salutary effect.

- M. Gandhi, Autobiography -

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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured.

- Tautus -

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No man is hurt by himself.

- Diogenes -

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Unjust rule never endures perpetually.

- Senea, Medea -

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The most complete injustice is to seem just, when not so.

- Plato, Republic -

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