"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
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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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"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
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"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish"
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
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"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
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"The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too."
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"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
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"In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death."
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
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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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"There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted."
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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance."
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"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
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