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The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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