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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.