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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

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He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.

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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

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Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

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I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

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