What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Paradoxes are always dangerous things.
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The wisdom that a scholar tries to communicate to others, always sounds like madness.
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There is no fine art without self-consciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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The well bred contradict other people and the wise contradict themselves.
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All influence is negative... but there is nothing worse than a positive one.
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