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"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."
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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Truth
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
Wisdom
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
Justice
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
Behavior
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
Wisdom
"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
Life
"People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted."
Philosophy
"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
Wisdom
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
Humility
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
Writing
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