“We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
