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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

No one is happy all his life long.

We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Men expect too much do too little.