"But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself."
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"Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks."
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"Nothing is true, but that which is simple."
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"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure."
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"The unnatural, that too is natural."
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"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
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"The threshold is the place of expectation."
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."
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"Everything great and intelligent is in the minority"
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"Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]"
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"As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live."
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"Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again."
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"We see only what we know."
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"A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going."
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"Boldness has power, magic and genius in it."
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"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
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"By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."
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