It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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