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As nations improve, so do their gods
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
Ah, how happy would many lives be if individuals troubled themselves as little about other people's affairs as about their own!
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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