"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
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"There is something in us that is wiser than our head."
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"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."
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"There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life."
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"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
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"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"
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"Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart."
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
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"The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place."
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
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"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked."
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"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."
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"The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use"
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"What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity."
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"The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
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