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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

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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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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

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Oaths are the fossils of piety.

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

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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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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

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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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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

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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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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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