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

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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

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Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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No one can transcend their own individuality.

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We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

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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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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

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Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

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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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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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