"Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned."
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"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge."
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"We are not all equal, nor can we be so."
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"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here."
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"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself."
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"What we do not understand we do not possess."
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"For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior."
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"Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers."
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"Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best."
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"The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently."
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"It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies."
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"Mastery passes often for egotism."
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"Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
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"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language."
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"Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face."
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"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"
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"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."
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