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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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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 greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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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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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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