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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 22, 1851
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angry people are not always wise
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Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god
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Sold everywhere as Aristotle's, and the thought is his — Politics I.2 argues that anyone who cannot live in society is either a beast or a god. But this English sentence is Bacon's, in Of Friendship, and he does not endorse it. He introduces it as a speech by someone unnamed that puts "more truth and untruth together in few words" than any he knows, then argues only the first half holds: a hatred of society has something of the savage beast in it, but it is "most untrue that it should have any character of the divine nature". The line is quoted as wisdom by people who have not read the sentence that follows it.
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You are important. Your existence has a reason. You deserve to be respected. You aren't meant to be an afterthought. Don't chase those who make you shrink. Replace them with those who realise that your presence is a reward and your energy is a blessing.
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Two heads are better than one.