Quotes 221 till 240 of 327.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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