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| I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage. | | Uncategorized | |
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| In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared | | Uncategorized | |
| It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it | | Uncategorized | |
| It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. | | Debate | |
| It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up | | Uncategorized | |
| It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Justice is the truth in action. | | Justice | |
| Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. | | Kindness | |
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| Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. | | Uncategorized | |
| Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people | | Mediocrity | |
| Misery is almost always the result of thinking. | | Misery | |
| Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another | | Uncategorized | |
| Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy | | Praise | |
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| Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. | | Uncategorized | |
| Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom | | Uncategorized | |
| Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man | | Marriage | |
