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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

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

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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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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Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

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Everybody's friend is nobody's.

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