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The one essential thing is that we strive to have light in ourselves. When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.
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That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
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