Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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