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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"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."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

"The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy."

"A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need."

"To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."
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