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(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

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