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Only the impossible is worth the effort.
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Difficulties are things that show what men are.
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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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The caressing, melodious tones of humility and flattery never sang in the ears of the clerk Senhor Josè, these have never had a place in the chromatic scale of feelings normally shown to him.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body, in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
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The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
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