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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of mankind which we apparently can hardly attain without going through the invigorating hibernation of a new barbarism.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

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If people are taught how to think and not always what to think, a false concept will be guarded against.

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive. . .

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Be wary of passing the judgment obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

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The great rule If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter.

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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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