"Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys."
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"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered."
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"The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness."
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"What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life."
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"Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself."
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"Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone."
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"Only fools don't contradict themselves"
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"The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling."
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"The color of truth is gray."
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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
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"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."
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"The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized."
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"It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue."
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"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
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"It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying."
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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
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"It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward."
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