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“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?”

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”

“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”

“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”

“yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason”

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

“Let's begin with one principle: it is better to talk, than to shoot.”

“Freedom is more precious than the gift that makes us lose it.”

“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”

“Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.”

“Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.”

“I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.”
Exegi monumentum aere perennius

“We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.”