“ There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ”
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“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
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“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
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“ Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ”
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“ Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ”
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“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
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“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”
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“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”
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“ An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it. ”
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“ I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ”
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“ An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it. ”
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“ Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. ”
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“ Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ”
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“ Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ”
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“ I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ”
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“ Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ”
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“ I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ”
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“ Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf. ”
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“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
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“ Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ”
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“ All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. ”
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“ Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. ”
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“ An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it. ”
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“ The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ”
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