Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means there’s always something else, and so everything has limits. Why is it so hard to conceive that a thing is a thing, and that it isn’t always being some other thing that’s beyond it?” At that moment I felt in my bones not that I was talking to a man, but to another universe. I tried one last time, from another angle, which I felt compelled to consider legitimate. “Look, Caeiro... think about numbers... Where do they end? Take any number — say 34. Past it we have 35, 36, 37, 38 — there can be no end to it. There is no number so big that there is no number larger...“ “But that’s just numbers,” protested my master Caeiro. And then, looking at me out of his formidable, childlike eyes: “What is 34 in Reality, anyway?
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[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
[Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d... LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock. JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected. LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and
magnificent, such close neighbors that th... BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur... LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
[Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq... LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life. LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters. LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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honest man walks away and is silent... FRANCOIS DE LA NOUE ("BRAS DE FER") So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the
sword.
[Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous... LOUIS DE ROUVROY DUC DE ST. SIMON Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
[Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine pass... MME. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SEVIGNE [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild
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choose different paths.
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than... ALAIN DE BOTTON Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportio... HONORE DE BALZAC 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the... CYRANO DE BERGERAC Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids;... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager. ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it agele... MICHAEL DE LUCA Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is... AUBREY DE GREY May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ... PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how y... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and ... COTE DE PABLO There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threat... ALAIN DE BOTTON A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be fle... EDWARD DE BONO Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accom... REMY DE GOURMONT If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of course one should not drink much, but often. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc... CHARLES DE GAULLE Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza. LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, w... ANTHONY DE MELLO In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the u... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good o... GERARD DE NERVAL Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician.... CHARLES DE LINT I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this i... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To be prepared is half the victory. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The question on long term strategy is not if it is successful, but if you are still alive. RON DE JONGE In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Philosophy is doubt. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf... BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most univ... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of my... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If you never change your mind, why have one? EDWARD DE BONO That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the dec... EDMOND DE GONCOURT A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, wi... MALCOLM DE CHAZAL Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. EDMOND DE GONCOURT What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeel... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in convers... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest... MARQUIS DE SADE Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain. MAX DE PREE In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what w... MAX DE PREE Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. REMY DE GOURMONT We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure ... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD