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With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Paul Eldridge
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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
TruthTruth IsFactsManyStrangled
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
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If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
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