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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Sometimes misquoted in the form: [...] to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

Thus we learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

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If it's on the Internet it must be true

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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.