The faculty of imagination ... is the main source of human happiness.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Art could never equal the richness of nature.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
A beautiful and amiable illusion is that for which the days, annniversaries of an occurrence, that in truth have nothing more than any other day of the year, seem to have with that a particular connection, and that almost a shadow from the past may revive and return in those days, and stand before us.
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The more one keeps count of time, the more one dispairs in having enough of it; the more one squanders of it, the more one belives it as exceeding.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
In troubles there's no need of tears but of advice.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
One doesn't live in this world but of impudence.
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The most efficent way to gain fame is to make the world believe to be already famous.
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Boredom is not but of those whose soul something holds.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
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Things are despised only when it is certain they are owned, and are appreciated only when they are lost or there is a risk of losing them.
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