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bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
believe men europe
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
block believe power
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
believe men facts
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
women believe passion
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
believe world said
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
believe i-believe i-believe-in
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position