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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth

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