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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Art Mistakes Science

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Courage Honesty

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Destiny

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Time

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Character

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Miscellaneous

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

History

There's one thing worse than being alone: wishing you were.

Loneliness

They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Courage

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

Beauty

A man may stand there and put all America behind him.

Miscellaneous

Life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire.

Life

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Language

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Mirror

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

Adversity

For man is man and master of his fate.

Character Destiny

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

Sports

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

Science

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.

Miscellaneous

Success is best when it's shared.

Best