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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the...
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I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
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I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to...
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Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back...
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a...
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets...
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems...
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since...
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and...