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- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of…
- We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
- Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for…
- Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the…
- The future is hidden even from those who make it.
- Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced…
- That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
- All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
- The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
- It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I…
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