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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
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