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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
Sacrifice
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
Nature
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
Books
"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
Love
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
Man
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
Art
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
Being
"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
Creativity
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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