Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quotes

#1. Co-existence or no existence.

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#2. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

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#3. Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

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#4. Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

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#5. There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

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#6. Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

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#7. To be and not to be, that is the answer.

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#8. True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

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#9. The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

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#10. The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

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#11. Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

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#12. Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

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#13. Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

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#14. Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

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#15. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

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#16. We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

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#17. The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

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#18. Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

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#19. Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

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#20. Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

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#21. I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.

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#22. If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

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#23. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.

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#24. Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.

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#25. If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

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#26. Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

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