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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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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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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Each day is a little life.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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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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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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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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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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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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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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