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I am moved by the light.
The living are just the dead on holiday
I count only the hours that are serene.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.