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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Know Knowing Nothing Only
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Afflicted Because Company Drawn
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Book Easy Just Offended
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book Ignore Like Offer
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Except Fact Ignorance Know
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Employs He His How
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Author Find Get Go
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Exists Know Knowing Knowledge
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Explain God Idea Live
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Agree Deficient Deserve Lives
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Against Away Courage Does
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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We cannot attain the sanity that we seek by being quiet or nonchalant about our state of affair.

Sanity Seek Nonchalant State
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Change Changes Does God
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Afraid Becoming Capable Doing
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Danger First Greatest Greatest Danger
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Cannot Immediately Necessary Patience
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Advice Both Either Friendly
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Cannot Chess Feel Game
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Creates Does God He
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Alter Beloved Does Itself
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Best Come Conversations Cruel
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Being Come Every Faith
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

About Beautiful Beautiful Things Heard
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Being Cannot Catch Caught
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Actually Gain Huge I Can
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For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

For Me Money Not
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Nothing in life is promised except death.

Nothing Life Is Promised
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

People Say Always Can't
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Why Someone Good One
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Able Answer Answered Been
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Accord Complexes Conduct Eliminate
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Does Gained Hearing Intellect
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Alone Also Anticipate Businessman
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Afraid Am America Experiment
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Any Cannot Childhood Father
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The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego House Master Own
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Become Give God Grown
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