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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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The world is my representation

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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

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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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Each day is a little life.

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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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