The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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  1. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

  2. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

  3. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

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