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"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."
Time

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
Time

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"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."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
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"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
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"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"
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