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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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