Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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