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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

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

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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

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When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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

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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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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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