The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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