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Mankind is like the Red Sea: the staff has scarcely parted the waves asunder, before they flow together again.
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Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.
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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life the best.
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We readily bow to antiquity, but not to posterity. It is only a father that does not grudge talent to his son.
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There is no virtue in subordinating oneself; but there is virtue in descending, and in recognising anything as above us, which is beneath us.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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All our pursuits and actions are a wearying process. Well is it for him who wearies not.
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
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Love is a true renovator.
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Mankind is not without a wish to serve; hence the chivalry of the French is a servitude.
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In the theatre the pleasure of what we see and hear restrains our reflections.
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There is no limit to the increase of experience, but theories cannot become clearer and more complete in just the same sense. The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of the human faculties. Hence there is no way of looking at the world, but it recurs, and the curious thing happens, that with increased experience a limited theory may again come into favour.
It is always the same world which stands open to observation, which is continually being contemplated or guessed at; and it is always the same men who live in the true or in the false; more at their ease in the latter than in the former.