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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
His head was turned by too great success.
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
A hated government does not long survive.
People do not die - they kill themselves.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
There is no evil without its compensation.
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
The way to good conduct is never too late.
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
That grief is light which can take counsel.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.