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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. - Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. – Baruch Spinoza

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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Jealousy
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Baruch Spinoza
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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Music
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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Happiness

Happiness? No, its not there for me. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Happiness

The one happiness is to shut ones door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life. – Eleanora Duse

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Happiness

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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! – George Meredith

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Certainty

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. – Anna Quindlen

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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. – Condoleezza Rice

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