If generation were in a straight line only, and there were no compensation or circle in nature, no turn or return into one another, then you know that all things would at last have the same form and pass into the same state, and there would be no more generation of them. The Trials Of Socrates
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. Parerga and Paralipomena
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. Fragments
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. Le Pere Goriot
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