- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Dominion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- Forty Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- Minus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
- Blind Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Nov 07, 2020
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
- Parting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
- Material
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020