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- The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
- Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others,…
- Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so…
- Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
- Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
- A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
- God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
- A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
- Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that…
- My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle