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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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My trade and art is to live.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
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Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
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