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Unrest is the mark of existence.

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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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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

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Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

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In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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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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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

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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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Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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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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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

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