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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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