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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.... Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.