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Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.
All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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Nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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