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- An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
- Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
- For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
- Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite…
- A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
- The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
- Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world…
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
- Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.
- The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
- How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively…
- We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
- Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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