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• A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. -- Boileau
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xxxviii, Of Solitude...
• Now tell me: can a man love anyone who hates himself?
  Can he be in harmony with someone else if he's divided in himself, or bring anyone pleasure if he's only a disagreeable nuisance to himself?...
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• He who will not risk, cannot win. -- John Paul Jone
• He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne. Russian Proverb
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste
  here are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience....