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1866·Saint Petersburg, Russia
The soul is healed by being with children.
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Alexis de Tocqueville·1840I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Arthur C. Clarke·1962The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Niccolò Machiavelli·1513It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.
