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“If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.”
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
“What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.”
“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”
“No one I met at this time — doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients — failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.”