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- Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
- Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no…
- To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
- If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I…
- In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that…
- To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
- Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical…
- Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them…
- the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
- The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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