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What is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
