It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
This is the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses.
- Topic: Appreciation, Gratitude, Happiness
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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