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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

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