The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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