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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde

oneself

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

doubt
to know

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown."
Victor Hugo

happiness
to hide

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health."
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

decision
happiness
health

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will."
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

optimism
pessimism
will

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy

life
theory

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet

flower

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

smile

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove."
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Intelligence has value only in the service of love."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

intelligence
love
value

No man is weak by choice."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

weakness

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.""
Hans Christian Andersen

flower
freedom
to live

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

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People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving."
Albert Einstein

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
Mark Twain

day
life

Man is the future of man."
Francis Ponge

future

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
Mark Twain

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

wind

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy

change
oneself
world

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?"
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

opinion

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."
Niccolo Machiavelli

to be

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