The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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The look of a king is itself a deed.
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No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
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In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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