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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
[Action]

The men of the past had convictions, while we modems have only opinions.
[Opinion]

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
[Education]

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
[Marriage]

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

There is something marvelous in music. I might almost say it is, in itself, a marvel. Its position is somewhere between the region of thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and matter, related to both and yet differing from either. Spiritual, and yet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space.
[Music]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
[Fault]

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

When words leave off, music begins.
[Applause]

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.
[Women]

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
[Science]


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