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When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.
Ian Fleming On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1963

Quotes

“Addiction can happen to any of us through a subtle process where the bonds of degradation are too light to be felt until when they are too strong to be broken.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“’Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825 · Primary source

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