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"What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?"
"We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge."
"Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights."
"To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility."
"A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence."
