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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Experience teaches only the teachable
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying
Every man's memory is his private literature
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead
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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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