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"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
Choice


"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
Peace


"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
Power


"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
Responsibility


"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
Behavior


"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
Love


"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
Power


"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
Art


"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
History


"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
Thought
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