All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Between friends there is no need of justice.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

The actuality of thought is life

The actuality of thought is life.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

    The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

    You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

    You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

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