"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"There is nothing permanent except change."

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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"There is nothing permanent except change."

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"Big results require big ambitions."

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

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