We only understand that which already within us.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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