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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

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The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

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One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

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