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

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

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Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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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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Authority and example lead the world.

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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

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

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

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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

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