--COLERIDGE.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
--FROUDE.
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our
being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.--FROM
THE FRENCH.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled
to inspire.--DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.
HATRED.--The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that
the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for
reconciliation.--BRUYERE.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know
them because we hate them.--COLTON.
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of
mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or
those who are indifferent to you.--PLUTARCH.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their
littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.--BALZAC.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have
injured.--TACITUS.
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this
evil passion.--LAMARTINE.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our
own.--J. PETIT-SENN.
The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent.
--TACITUS.
When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate.
--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
HEALTH.--The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and
abstinence, to live as if he was poor.
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