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Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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Scoundrels are always sociable.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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