Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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

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

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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