Chance makes a football of man’s life.

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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the insanities we commit.

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

“Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”

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