The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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