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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

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Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

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The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

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Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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