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Attainment Quote by Ivan Panin

“For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.” quote by Ivan Panin — Download Open image

“For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.”

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Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

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We are not men, but promises of men.

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The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

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Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

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A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

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Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

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At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation…

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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

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The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

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Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

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