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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."
"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."
"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"
"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."
"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall."
"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
"We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you."
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us."
"True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it."
"...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."
"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."