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«Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.»
«Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.»
«Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy»
«Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.»
«He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me»
«Hope of gain lessens pain.»
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
«An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.»
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
«One pain lessened by another's anguish»

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