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“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”
“To live without a body!”
“... burdened with the unbearable weight of ourself.”
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”
“When I walk down the beach and smell the salt water, hear the waves crashing against the shoreline, and feel the granular sand under my feet, I can't help but realize why I'm here on this green earth”
“What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
