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"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
Soul
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
Thought
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
Country
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
Happiness
"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."
Complaint
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
Children
"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
Virtue
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
Enjoyment
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
Nothing
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Men
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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Personal Development
"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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Personal Development
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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Personal Development
"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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Personal Development
"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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Personal Development
"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."
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Personal Development
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