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We need but little learning to live happily.

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the i...more

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He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies i...more

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Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a ...more

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwi...more

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a...more