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35. Perverting the young! As if initiation in sexual pleasure was in itself an act of perversion! In general it is quite the opposite!'
37. 'The dogs bark but the caravan rolls on' (in response to critics)
34. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
38. The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
33. Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
39. The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
32. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
40. The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say- because they were too obvious.

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