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"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship."
"He worships God who knows him."
"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it."
"Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else."
"What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed"
"When modesty has once perished, it will never revive."
"Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs."
"Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us."
"It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles."
"Poverty needs much, avarice everything."
"Necessity is stronger than duty."
"That which takes effect by chance is not an art."
"Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor."
"Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy."
"Those alone are wise who know how to love."
"There exists no more difficult art than living."
"You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate."
"Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man."
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."