"Our foibles are really what make us lovable."
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"Few men have imagination enough for reality."
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"Willing is not enough, we must do."
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"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
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"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."
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"No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity."
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"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
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"Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained."
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"A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."
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"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
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"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."
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"Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before."
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"To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves."
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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"The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it."
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"God help us -- for art is long, and life so short."
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"The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine"
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