Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
A man's character is his fate.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.
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