Emilie du Chatelet quotes
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“Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.”
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“Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.”
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“To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...”
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“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”
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“Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.”
-- Emilie du Chatelet
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”
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