The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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