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 When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.  Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time. Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence. - Plutarch There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes. The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime. If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. - Matthew Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. - Goethe Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out. The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. 
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