To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
From Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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