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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
[ Books - Reading ]
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
[ Literature ]
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
[ Oppression ]
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
[ Praise ]
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
[ Character ]
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
[ Liberals ]
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
[ Learning ]
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
[ Fashion ]
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
[ Genius ]
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
[ Belief ]
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
[ Wisdom ]
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
[ Self-improvement ]
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
[ Advantage ]
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
[ People, Other ]
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
[ Ideas ]
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
[ Dishonesty ]
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
[ Publishing and Publishers ]
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
[ Apathy ]
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
[ Necessity ]
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
[ People ]
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
[ Impartiality ]
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
[ Passion ]
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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
[ Company ]
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
[ Indifference ]
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
[ Heaven ]
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
[ Fallibility ]
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
[ Theory ]
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
[ New World ]
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
[ Cunning ]
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
[ Things and Little Things ]
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
[ Propaganda ]
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
[ Temptation ]
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
[ Action ]
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
[ Worry ]
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
[ Theology ]
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
[ Solemnity ]
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
[ Books - Reading ]
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
[ Imitation ]
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
[ Virtue ]
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
[ Opinions ]
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
[ Wisdom ]
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
[ Freedom ]
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
[ Belief ]
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
[ Prophecy ]
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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
[ Belief ]
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