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“Most of us prefer to look outside rather than inside ourselves; for in the latter case we see but a dark hole, which means: nothing at all.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- de9b5f91efa6e798f8ef10338193771a93c8a090bf2aa807489fcea097179148
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Epictetus
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John Dryden
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John Dryden
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“Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."”
Diogenes Laertius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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