"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
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"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science"
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"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
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"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?"
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"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not."
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"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!"
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"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
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"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
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"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination."
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"Punishment is justice for the unjust."
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"Before all else, be armed."
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
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"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
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"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
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"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature"
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