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Quote by Giacomo Casanova
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his na

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. – Giacomo Casanova

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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. – Giacomo Casanova

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Education
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. – Giacomo Casanova

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Success
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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. – Giacomo Casanova

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Death
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

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What a book a devils chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! – Charles Darwin

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