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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
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
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth

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