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Henry F. Amiel

Henry F. Amiel

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The beautiful is superior to the sublime, because it is permanent and does not satiate, while the sublime is relative, fleeting, and violent.

Henry F. Amiel

Henry F. Amiel

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Take care of your reputation, not out of vanity, but to not harm your work, and out of love for the truth.

Henry F. Amiel

Henry F. Amiel

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Doubt in love ends up making one doubt everything.

Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria

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When the voice of an enemy accuses, the silence of a friend condemns.

Anacarsis

Anacarsis

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Many times laws are like spider webs: small insects are caught in them; the large ones break them.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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If you deceive me once, it's your fault; if you deceive me twice, it's mine.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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All things partake in everything, while intelligence is infinite and governs itself and is not mixed with anything.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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Intelligence is the purest of all things. It has total knowledge of everything and is the ultimate force.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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The intelligence knows all things and ordered all things that are to be and those that were and those that are now and those that are not.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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The war would end if the dead could come back.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never stopped imitating them.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Even good feelings, if excessively exalted, are capable of leading us to deplorable errors.