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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

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In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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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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In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

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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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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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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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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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