Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
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