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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
The New York Review of Books (20 April 1972) -
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
On War (1832) -
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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