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“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

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“So you must match time’s swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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“324.—There is more self-love than love in jealousy.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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“78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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