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The misery of a child is inter...

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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A ruling intelligentsia, wheth...

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

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Help your sister's boat across...

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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To wrong those we hate is to a...

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

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In running away from ourselves...

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

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Creativity is discontent trans...

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

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The self-despisers are less in...

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

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There are no chaste minds. Min...

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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We are more ready to try the u...

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

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Even in slight things the expe...

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

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It is to escape the responsibi...

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

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Unless a man has the talents t...

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

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Add a few drops of venom to a ...

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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Man's chief goal in life is st...

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

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There is a time when the word ...

There is a time when the word 'eventually' has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

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A mass movement attracts and h...

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

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Absolute faith corrupts as abs...

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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The hardest thing to cope with...

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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It takes a vice to check a vic...

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

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The Paleolithic hunters who pa...

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

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