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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion
Great and small suffer the same mishaps
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism
Continued eloquence is wearisome
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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