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| A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. |
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| A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. |
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| A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form |
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| A thinking man’s greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable. |
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| A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others |
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| A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise |
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| Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. |
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| Age merely shows what children we remain. |
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| All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do. |
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| All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. |
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| All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. |
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| All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. |
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| All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. |
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