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Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power
It is not certain that everything is uncertain
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
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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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