#not

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. ↗

— Billy Graham

#health #lost #nothing #something #wealth

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Begin with another's to end with your own. ↗