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A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

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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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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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Human life must be some form of mistake.

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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

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

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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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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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

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