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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The coward threatens when he is safe.
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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