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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
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To be an adult is to be alone.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.
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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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