A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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In youth one has tears without grief in age, griefs without tearsJoseph Roux
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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At first we hope too much, later on, not enough.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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I am I plus my circumstances.
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