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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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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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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

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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 intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

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

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Time is that in which all things pass away.

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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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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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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

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