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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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A snake is afraid of a mongoes, a mongoes is afraid of a dog, a dog is
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43 -
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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