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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

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Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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Man shows his character best in trifles.

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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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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

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