We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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

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

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

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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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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