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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

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He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

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Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of vir...more

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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.