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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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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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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

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Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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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 hamonized; it is true to life.

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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

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