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Originality is merely an illusion.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and...
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting,...
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions...
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind...
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which...
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he...
Quote #24094
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is...