"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.“
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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