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Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.
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Homer
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
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Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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Paul Valery
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
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Aristotle, Politics
Nature does nothing uselessly.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be and not seem.
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Francis Hutcheson
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
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John Milton
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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