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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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 Experience Quotes

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

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Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel.

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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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 Judgment Quotes

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.

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 Fortune Scholars And Scholarship

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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 Books And Reading Quotes

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

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 Life

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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