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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.[][]
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.[][]
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.[][]
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.[][]
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.[][]
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.[][]
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.[][]
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkeness or as good as drink. [][]
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.[][]
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