"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
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"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."
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"Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author."
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"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive."
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together."
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"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens."
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"For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl."
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"The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom."
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"The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored."
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
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"I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust."
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"A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."
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"A joy shared is a joy doubled."
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"Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty."
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"To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words."
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