No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

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