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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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