We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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