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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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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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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

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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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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

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

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

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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

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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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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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Authority and example lead the world.

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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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