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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
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