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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Who sows virtue reaps honor
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art
Water is the driving force of all nature
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
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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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