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 | "Sanity is a madness put to good use." | |
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Found in the topic Madness.
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| "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they
are green and vigorous in old age." | |
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Found in the topic Pride.
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| "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the
interval." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in
itself and not in its subject." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be
substantially true." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent,
common sense rounded out and minutely articulated." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are
precious than that they are true." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a
part of another; people are friends in spots." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Music is esentially useless, as is life." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat
it." | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of
influences." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what
it means can never be said." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "The family is one of nature?s masterpieces." | |
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Found in the topic Family.
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| "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have
forgotten your aim." | |
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Found in the topic Conviction.
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| "Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some
people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must
rest on circumstantial evidence." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "A man"s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should
survey the world." | |
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Found in the topic World.
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| "All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all
else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be
possible." | |
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Found in the topic All.
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| "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will
not laugh is a fool." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Wisdom comes by disillusionment." | |
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Found in the topic Disillusionment.
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