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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

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All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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

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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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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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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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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

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