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"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Wisdom
"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."
Music
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Man
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
Man
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
Philosophy
"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."
Life
"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
Joy
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
Philosophy
"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
Education
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
Being
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