"If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings."
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"Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders."
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"If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success."
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"National literature begins with fables and ends with novels."
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"Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions."
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"We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty."
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"It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it."
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"To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap."
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"All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb."
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"The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused."
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"To see the world is to judge the judges."
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"Justice is the right of the weakest."
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"Our life is woven wind."
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"The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always."
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"There are those to whom one must advise madness."
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"It is always our inabilities that vex us."
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"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."
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"There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work."
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"Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself."
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