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- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
- ...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is…
- Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what…
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and…
- Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of…
- The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- 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…
- If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man…
- How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the…
- At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
- The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the…
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