"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."
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"Learn diligence before speedy execution."
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
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"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."
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"It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see."
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"People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life."
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"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
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"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself."
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"Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light."
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"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
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"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly."
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"An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it."
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"Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
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"The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less."
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"A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job."
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"He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived."
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"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose"
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"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
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