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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself
My trade and art is to live
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think
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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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