If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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