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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

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Youth itself is a talent – a perishable talent.

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

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It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

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There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

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A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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It's easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

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A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

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The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything.

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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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