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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a goo...more

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at ...more

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Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

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He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies i...more

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a ...more

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwi...more

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a...more