It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.