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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

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