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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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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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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

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

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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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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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...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

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

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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

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Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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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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