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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

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Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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