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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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