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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Topic: Art
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Topic: Chaos
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Topic: Conscience
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Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Topic: Difficulties
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Topic: Dignity
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Topic: Dignity
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Topic: Disguise
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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.
Topic: Emotion`
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Topic: Enjoyment
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Topic: Fame
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Topic: Family
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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.
Topic: Friendship
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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.
Topic: Friendship
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Topic: Friendship
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
Topic: Happiness
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Topic: History
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Topic: History
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Topic: History
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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
Topic: Humanity
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Topic: Impossibility
Source: None
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Topic: Intimacy
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Topic: Intolerance
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Topic: Life
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Topic: Nature
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Topic: Patriotism
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Topic: Pride
Source: None
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Topic: Question
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Topic: Repetition
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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
Topic: Self-knowledge
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Topic: Skepticism
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
Topic: Truth
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Topic: Tyranny
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Topic: Virtue
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Topic: Weapons
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Topic: Words
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One real world is enough.
Topic: World
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