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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit....
• Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains.
  His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space...
• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains. -- Colto
• In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man.
• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
  -- John Churton Colli...
• it is not through sin that he opposes God. The Devil's strategy for our times is to make trivial human existence and to isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressure
  work demands, or economic anxieties. -- C. S. Lewi...
• The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
• That which is used develops. That which is not used wastes away. -- Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.)
• Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this.
  For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward....