"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
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"If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean."
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"We are our own aptest deceiver."
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"The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
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"The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value."
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"Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain."
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
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"If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question."
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"What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable."
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"Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think."
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"Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion."
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"To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost."
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"The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually."
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"The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home."
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"Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish."
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."
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"The eternal female draws us onward."
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"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
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"If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time."
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"Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power."
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