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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Andre Gide

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
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
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
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
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
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
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
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
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
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

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