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

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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

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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

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

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