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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

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The only paradise is paradise lost.

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

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