Ivan Panin Quotes
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Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
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As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
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Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.
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Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
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A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
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Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.
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Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.
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The best life is that which makes the best of life.
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However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
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The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
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Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
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The best excuse is to have none.
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The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.
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As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou let thy life, though darkened by adversity, be made all the more useful to thy fellows.
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If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
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Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.
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Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
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As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
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To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
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Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.
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The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
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Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
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For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.
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The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
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The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
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It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
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Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
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Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
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For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
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