The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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