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all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber
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Nothing is so insupportable to man as to be completely at rest, without passion, without business, without diversion, without study.
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but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy
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A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.
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One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association.