It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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