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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
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"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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