“Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.”
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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.