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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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