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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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Don't stumble over something behind you.
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.
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Golden roofs break men's rest.
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He who is penitent is almost innocent.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
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