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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as...
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There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen,...
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on...
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The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then...
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits,...
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else...