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“Consult duty not events.”
“We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.”
“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
“No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.”
“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.”
“Delay in justice is injustice.”
“We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.”
“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.”
“There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.”
“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”
“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.”
“A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.”
“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.”
“We talk on principal, but act on motivation.”