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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave

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