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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

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Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

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

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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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Human life must be some form of mistake.

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