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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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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

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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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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

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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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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

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Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

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If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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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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Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

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