"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Hatred is inveterate anger."
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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."
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"You cannot step twice into the same river."
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"I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
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"When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie."
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"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
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"Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad."
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"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."
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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."
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"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life."
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"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
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"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
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"That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless"
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"Science is nothing but perception."
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