"The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it."
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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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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."
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"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."
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"You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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"Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts."
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"Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident."
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"To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents."
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"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience."
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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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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents."
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"It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do"
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"Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself."
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"There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be."
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"Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact."
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"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer"
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"Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion."
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