"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."

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"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live."

Art, Desire

"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."

Time, Now, Practice, Will

"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

Life, Consciousness, Sensations, States

"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art."

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"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."

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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."

"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art."

"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."

"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."