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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

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Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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