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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."

"Often a woman that doesn't have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can't. It's either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."

"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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