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Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.

A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief.

Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease: but men do not always take the right way.

Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?