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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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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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Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

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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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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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Life is a constant process of dying.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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