The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEKnow that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The color of truth is gray.
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