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Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

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Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

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A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

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True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

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I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

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Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

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