Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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Beware of the person of one book.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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