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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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The world is the house of the strong.
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down…
— William Shakespeare
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids…
— William Shakespeare
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the…
— May Sarton
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
— Helen Prejean
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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