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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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Sanity is madness put to good use.

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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

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