The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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