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- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,…
- We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
- Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is…
- It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
- It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than…
- We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of…
- To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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