I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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

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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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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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

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