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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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Unrest is the mark of existence.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

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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.

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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

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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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A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

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