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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

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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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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

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Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

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Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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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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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

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Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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Each day is a little life.

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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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

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