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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
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