"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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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."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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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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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
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"Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions."
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"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."
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"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig."
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"Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge."
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"People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them."
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"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
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"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
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"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie."
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