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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
Source: On War (1832)
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