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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

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It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

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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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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

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Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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