“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg”
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“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg”
“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
“All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good”
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs”
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something”
“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”