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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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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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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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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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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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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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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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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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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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