All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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