It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

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Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.