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• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears: -- Montaigne
• He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
  -- Proverbs 11:12...
• What they said: What they meant: "You will be fortunate if you can get him to work for you.
  (We certainly never succeeded.) There is no other employee with whom I can adequately compare him....
• He who hates himself is not humble. -- E.M. Ciora
• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good.
  His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours....
• Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of ma
  o-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him...
• No one loves the man whom he fears. -- Aristotle
• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...