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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.



Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth



That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.



Out of difficulties grow miracles.



Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty



The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.



Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late



The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?



Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity



A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.



As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.



There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast.








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