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Time heals griefs and quarrels.






May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.






Your own senses you shall think to the end!






The beginnings of all things are small.






The eyes cannot know the nature of things.






Grammar which rules even kings, and makes them, with a high hand, obey her laws.






Life's most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”






The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.






Opponents often need each other more than friends, for without wind, the mills won't run.






Unless the vessel be sweet, whatever you pour into it turns sour.






Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.






Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.






All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.






Simplicity can only exist in what is true.






He who is born to obey will obey even on the throne.






'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.






An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.






While you do not know life, how can you know about death?






Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.






Each life makes its destiny.






There are no contradictions in nature.






We do not have enough self-respect to disregard the contempt of others.






The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.






Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.






Nobody wants to introduce as many reforms as children do.






Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.






We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.






Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.






The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.






Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.










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