All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The mind of man is capable of anythingbecause everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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