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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
— Democritus
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the…
— Al-Ghazali
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
— Stanislaw Lem
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A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
— Samuel Rogers
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In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man…
— Samuel Johnson
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But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
— Stephen King
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and…
— Thomas Campion
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The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
— Confucius
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