“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.”
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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