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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
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"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity."

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."

"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
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