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 Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.  The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. The ability to sin differs among people. For example, a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one. A wise man turns chance into good fortune. A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." So many laws argue so many sins. Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course. He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands. Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation. Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. Humility is like underwear, essential but indecent if it shows. 
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