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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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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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Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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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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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

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