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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Galileo Galilei

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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.