Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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