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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
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Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.