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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Only the shallow know themselves.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.