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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

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Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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