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"“True enough, thought i, as this passage occurred to my mind—old black letter, thou reasonest well.”" — Jun 22, 2019 06:26PM
"“True enough, thought i, as this passage occurred to my mind—old black letter, thou reasonest well.”" — Jun 22, 2019 06:26PM
What we want is the fruits of reason, while all they have is the useless thorns of intemperate passion. If he listens to their nonsense, he will accustom himself to depression instead of trying to find a cure.”
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Les Essais
― Les Essais
“Saying is one thing and doing is another”
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“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
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“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
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