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

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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

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

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

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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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