Quotes 501 till 520 of 2063.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Hell is other people.
Original:L'enfer, c'est les autres.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
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