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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
Topic: Consequences
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To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Topic: Dogs
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Topic: Enjoyment
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Topic: Equality
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Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Topic: Excuses
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Topic: Experience
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Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
Topic: Fact
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Topic: Fanatics
Source: None
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Topic: Habit
Source: None
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Topic: Heresy
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Topic: History
Source: None
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Topic: Intelligence
Source: None
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Topic: Language
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
Topic: Literature
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
Topic: Literature
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
Topic: Memory
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Topic: Obsession
Source: None
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Topic: Popularity
Source: None
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
Topic: Spirituality
Source: None
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Topic: Talent
Source: None
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
Topic: Tragedy
Source: None
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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