“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.