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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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

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There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

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

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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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