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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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