"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
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"When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty."
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
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"Man is the cruelest animal."
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."
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"You cannot step into the same river twice."
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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
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"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
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"We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
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""Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.""
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"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
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"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
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