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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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

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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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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

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Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

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