Our love is due to both.
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To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just and therefore to be
impartial, more exactly, to be disinterested, more exactly still, to be
impersonal.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do
what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to
our powers.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only
begins for man with self-surrender.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he
decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
* * * * *
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the
flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its
spark.
February 3, 1857.--The phantasmagoria of the soul cradles and soothes me
as though I were an Indian yoghi, and everything, even my own life,
becomes to me smoke, shadow, vapor, and illusion.
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