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If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected. Voltaire
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul. Fernando Pessoa
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. Oscar Wilde
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. Mahatma Gandhi