"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."
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"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
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"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture."
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"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted."
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"The mere passage of time makes us all exiles."
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"The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday."
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"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
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"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
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"To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."
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