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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

— Anthony Trollope Orley Farm (1862)

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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Framley Parsonage (1861)

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

The Bertrams (1859)

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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