"The word of man is the most durable of all material."

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"The word of man is the most durable of all material."

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Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

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"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

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"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."

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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

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"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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