Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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