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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Youth is everywhere in place.

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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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