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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.






Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.






When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.






There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.






God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.






I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.






All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.






You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.






Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.






No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.






Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.






Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.






Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.






What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.






There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.






What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.






He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.






Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.






There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.






First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.






Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.






It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.






Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.






When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.






As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.






Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?






Work is the price which is paid for reputation.






But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.






One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.










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