Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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