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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I...
Quote #15720
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that...
Quote #5417
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
Quote #6471
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Quote #15367
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a...
Quote #2449
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and...
Quote #23104
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...