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 | "Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." | |
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Found in the topic Curiosity.
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| "It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel
that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own
esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for
what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life
before we can enter into another!" | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest." | |
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Found in the topic Chastity.
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| "I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of
wisdom." | |
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Found in the topic Enthusiasm.
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| "It is well for the heart to be naive And for the mind not to
be." | |
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Found in the topic Heart.
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| "That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the
uncertain events of the future." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I
have in my library are books that other folk have lent me." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a
lot." | |
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Found in the topic Understand.
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| "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on
conjecture." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another
which will be eternal." | |
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Found in the topic Immortality.
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| "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it
and copy it." | |
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Found in the topic Copy.
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| "Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign
his work." | |
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Found in the topic Chance.
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| "An education isn"t how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know. It"s being able to differentiate between what you know
and what you don"t." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among
masterpieces." | |
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Found in the topic Adventure.
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| "To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "A person is never happy except at the price of some
ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants
another one which will last forever." | |
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Found in the topic Eternity.
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| "Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom." | |
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Found in the topic Lever.
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