"He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination."
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"Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life."
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"Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it."
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"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."
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"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
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"Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet."
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"Philosophy is the health of the mind."
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"Everything may happen."
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"Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land."
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"I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them."
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"We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already."
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"To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor."
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"It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none."
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"We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road."
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"He will live ill who does not know how to die well."
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"Nobody becomes guilty by fate."
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"The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution."
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"Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one."
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"...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched."
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"The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving."
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