"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
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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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"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
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"Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls."
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"There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being."
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."
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"Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth."
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"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."
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"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
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"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."
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"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable."
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"A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
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"The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project."
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"Everything that happens, happens of necessity."
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"Animals hear about death for the first time when they die."
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"The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost."
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