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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...
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I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success....
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from...
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you...
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Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them....
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if...
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions...
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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise...