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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism
Continued eloquence is wearisome
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room
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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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