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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for...
Quote #21794
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we...
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the...
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Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats...
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The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if...
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Praise youth and it will prosper.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few...
Quote #9325
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into...