"Great men are like eagles and…" — Arthur Schopenhauer

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Les grands hommes sont comme des aigles et construisent leur nid dans quelque haute solitude

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“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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