Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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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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