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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.
Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
