Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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