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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious
A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
To rise to the completer life of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
Luria
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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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