Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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

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My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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

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

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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