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"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."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."
Life
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
Life
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
Philosophy
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Love
"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
Philosophy
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
Faith
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
Wisdom
"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
Philosophy
"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
Philosophy
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