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"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
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