"Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions."
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"How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!"
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"We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality."
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"What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?"
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"Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate."
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"Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us."
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"Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas."
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"The mind is the atmosphere of the soul."
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"Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop."
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"Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions."
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"TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."
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"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
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"Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument."
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"Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny."
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"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
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"It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas."
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"All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste."
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"Without duty, life is soft and boneless."
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"Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them."
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"Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination."
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