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If a man does think too much of himself, he is more than he believes himself to be.
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In art and knowledge, as also in deed and action, everything depends on a pure apprehension of the object and a treatment of it according to its nature.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.