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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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