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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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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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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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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

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