Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Dare to be yourself.
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