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"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
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"When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?"
"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
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"We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance."
"Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other."
"He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think."
"The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple."
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