"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand" — Baruch de Spinoza

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

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