Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

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The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

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