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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
