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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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