The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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