We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
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