One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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