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Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is...
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the...
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there...
Quote #10319
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of...
Quote #7672
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount...
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make...
Quote #22745
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s...
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of...