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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order...
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
Quote #9792
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Quote #31476
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we...
Quote #259
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to...
Quote #5546
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us...
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him...
Quote #31503
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.