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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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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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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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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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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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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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

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