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Because a man speaks, he thinks he is able to speak about language.
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One need only grow old to become gentler in one’s judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
125
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
126
Why should those who are happy expect one who is miserable to die before them in a graceful attitude, like the gladiator before the Roman mob?
127
Some one asked Timon about the education of his children. ‘Let them,’ he said, ‘be instructed in that which they will never understand.’
128
There are people whom I wish well, and would that I could wish better.
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By force of habit we look at a clock that has run down as if it were still going, and we gaze at the face of a beauty as though she still loved.