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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking…
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion…
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not…
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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security…
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The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion…
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