If our condition were truly happy we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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Time heals griefs and quarrels for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend

Time heals griefs and quarrels for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other sid

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination decides everything.

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    Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

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