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• The most successful direction in which you can throw dice is away.
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sort of acquaintances only- those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
  -- Colto...
• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• 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....
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
  But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own....
• If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away.
  Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day....
• That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longe
  as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful with it than those who have inherited one....