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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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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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Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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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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A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

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Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

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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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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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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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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

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

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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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