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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit -
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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