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Let him that would move the world first move himself
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another
The world is but a canvas to the imagination
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion
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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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