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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness. ”
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. ”
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. ”
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ”
Beauty and folly are old companions. ”
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ”
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. ”
Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ”
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ”
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ”