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When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our...
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Quote #5879
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes...
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The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it,...
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...
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Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the...
Quote #14768
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or...
Quote #17221
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to...
Quote #8023
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.