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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy
This feeling of distrust is always the last which a great mind acquires; he is deceived for a long time
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
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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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