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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

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

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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

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Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

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Money is human happiness in the abstract.

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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

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Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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

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