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"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
"Life begins on the other side of despair."
"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."
"Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour."
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law."
"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
"Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."