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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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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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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

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At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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Time is that in which all things pass away.

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