Quotes 2121 till 2135 of 2135.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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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 surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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Wealth unused might as well not exist.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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