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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
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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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