"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."

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"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

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"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

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"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

"Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy."

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."