Sentencje w bazie Gavagai:
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.
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You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts you will be ruined, for ruin and recovery are both from within.
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Tylko wykształceni są wolni.
Only the educated are free.
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Prawdziwym panem i królem jest jedynie mędrzec, który uwolnił się od namiętności i niczego nie potrzebuje.
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Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue.
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First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
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God has delivered yourself to your care, and says: I had no one fitter to trust than you.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. -- from The Enricheridion
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
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Difficulties are things that show what men are.
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Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
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W czasie uczty nie opowiadaj, jak należy jeść, tylko jedz jak należy.
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Nie to, co się z tobą dzieje, ale to, jak na to reagujesz, ma znaczenie.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
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