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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. - [Happiness] All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. - Joyzelle (act I) [Death] The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most. - Joyzelle (act I) [Future] I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] - Measure of the Hours, mentioned as found by Hazlitt on a sun dial near Venice [Sun Dial Mottoes] The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas Aux cadrans de ce monde.] - Measure of the Hours, motto on a sun dial on a church at Tourette-sur-Loup [Sun Dial Mottoes] I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.] - Measure of the Hours--Motto [Sun Dial Mottoes]
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