Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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