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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Jean-Paul Sartre

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.