"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."

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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

Art

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

Compassion

"It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite."

Strength

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."

Creativity

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."

Progress

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

Emotional

"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."

Culture

"The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."

Reflection

"Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own."

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