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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding
Everything is self-evident
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue
We only understand that which is already within us
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
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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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