Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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