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There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.”
Michel de Montaigne
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He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.”
Publius Vergilius Maro
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau
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It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.”
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Epictetus
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Conformity of the intellect to the things.”
Thomas Aquinas
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Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.”
Denis Diderot
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Things do not change we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
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The eyes cannot know the nature of things.”
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus
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"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.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.”
Baruch Spinoza
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All men are not capable of great things, but all are sensitive to great things.”
Alfred de Musset
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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.”
Gaston Bachelard
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