Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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