To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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