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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A person hears only what they understand.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		A useless life is an early death.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Age merely shows what children we remain.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		All things are only transitory.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		An unused life is an early death.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Everyone hears only what he understands.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I call architecture frozen music.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If I love you, what does that matter to you!
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		In art the best is good enough.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Live dangerously and you live right.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Love can do much, but duty more.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Mastery passes often for egotism.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nothing is worth more than this day.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		On all the peaks lies peace.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Precaution is better than cure.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Superstition is the poetry of life.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The deed is everything, the glory naught.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The little man is still a man.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The phrases that men