Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. 

     Benjamin Franklin

(1706-1790)

American statesman

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

Socrates

(469-399 B.C.E.)

Greek philosopher

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Emerson

The world belongs to the energetic.

     Ralph Waldo Emerson  

(1803-1882)

     U.S. author

“Self-Reliance”

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Believe you have it, and you have it.

Desiderius Erasmus

(1466 - 1536)

Dutch scholar

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The only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963)

English writer

Brave New World

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. 

Abraham Lincoln

(1809-1865)

U.S. President

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Common sense is not so common.

François de Voltaire

(1694 - 1778)

French philosopher

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. 

     Aristotle

(384-322 B.C.E.)

Greek philosopher

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Every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

(1547-1616)

Spanish writer

Don Quixote

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