Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Biron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
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