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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
We only understand that which already is within us.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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