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“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
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“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
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“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
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“Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched, but there is greatness in knowing one is wretched.”
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― Pensées
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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