I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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