Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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