Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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