- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
- Dumping
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
- Damning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
- Oneself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
- Nov 07, 2020
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
- Pass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories pass. The frog remains.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
- Demolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be adult is to be alone.
- Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020