Multatuli Quotes

#1. The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.

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#2. One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

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#3. It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

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#4. Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

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#5. Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

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#6. Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

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#7. Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

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#8. There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

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#9. Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

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#10. Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

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#11. Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet ... Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that.

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#12. I love you so much that I'm glad I never met you.

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#13. There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

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#14. Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

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#15. I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.

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