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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

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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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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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

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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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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 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 principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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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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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

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