All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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

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  How little it takes to be happy, and a hundred times less to suffer forever.

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  Accept the things with which your lot has been cast, and love the men among whom you have received your portion, but do it truly.

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  The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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