#2,768

Man never calculates the price of any comfort he gains.

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#2,603

A decision that is not a little crazy does not deserve respect.

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#2,573

Concessions to the adversary fill the imbecile with admiration.

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#2,513

What is difficult is not to strip naked, but to walk without taking pleasure in going around naked.

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#2,457

At a certain profound level every accusation they make against us hits the mark.

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#2,448

Authentic rewards have the privilege of not being coveted except by tiny minorities.

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#2,390

The people with whom we speak every day and our favorite authors cannot belong to the same zoological species.

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#2,350

In order to live peacefully with one’s neighbor, there is nothing better than not having a single postulate in common.

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#2,286

Why “marcher avec son siècle” when one does not seek to sell it anything?

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#2,235

. . .and lead us not into the foolishness of wondering each day at the daily wonder.

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#2,174

Profound convictions are transmitted in silence.

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#2,151

Nothing important is reached simply by walking.
But jumping is not enough to cross the abyss; one must have wings.

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#2,127

Only we can poison the wounds inflicted on us.

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#2,111

What matters to nearly everyone is not being right, but that they be right.

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#2,052

To learn that the most valuable goods are the least rare requires a long apprenticeship.

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#1,992

We search in vain for the explanation of certain things because we should search for the explanation of their opposites.

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#1,939

“Great men” are luminous specters that vanish in the divine light and in the plebeian night.

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#1,935

Let us choose without hesitation, but without hiding the fact that the arguments we reject often balance those we accept.

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#1,898

Let us not expect any success to result from anything but unforeseeable coincidences.

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#1,818

The name by which we are known is merely the best known of our pseudonyms.

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