Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! [ Joubert ]

He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it. [ Lavater ]

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. [ Aristotle ]

Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. [ De Boufflers ]

To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]

Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been. [ Aristotle ]

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. [ Seneca ]

The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]