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“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.” quote by Andre Gide — Download Open image

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

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“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are…

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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very…

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself…

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“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed…

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“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their strength, their courage. Then there’s that thing they do in Germany. You heard about that, didn’t you? Some man over there agreed to let another man cut off his penis, cook it, then feed it to…

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“One man accomplishment Is another mans failure.”

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“Hell, I bet there's another man right now on the other side of this planet, standing in the pouring rain, fighting desperately for the…

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The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

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Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to…

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