"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
Every man is a poet at heart.
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"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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"He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
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