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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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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.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

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The world is my representation

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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Time is that in which all things pass away.

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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

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Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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