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 | "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that
suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the
world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own
life and person." | |
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Found in the topic Suicide.
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| "The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is
made." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called
in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it
is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a
great mistake." | |
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Found in the topic Immortality.
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| "A word too much always defeats its purpose." | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "We forfeit three fourths of ourselves in order to be like other
people." | |
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Found in the topic Copy.
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| "On a cold winter?s day, a group of porcupines huddled together to
stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another?s quills
and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them closer together
again, their quills again forced them apart. They were driven back and
forth at the mercy of their discomforts until they found the distance from
one another that provided both a maximum of warmth and a minimum of pain.
In human beings, the emptiness and monotony of the isolated self produces
a need for society. This brings people together, but their many offensive
qualities and intolerable faults drive them apart again. The optimum
distance that they finally find that permits them to coexist is embodied
in politeness and good manners. Because of this distance between us, we
can only partially satisfy our need for warmth, but at the same time, we
are spared the stab of one another?s quills." | |
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Found in the topic Manners.
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| "A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants." | |
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Found in the topic See.
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| "Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax." | |
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Found in the topic Politeness.
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| "Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither
feeling is quite within our control." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." | |
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Found in the topic Honor.
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| "Intellect is invisible to the man who has none." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the
world." | |
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Found in the topic Limits.
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| "Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete
satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of
all." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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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." | |
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Found in the topic Morning.
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| "If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect
produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. It is difficult
to keep quiet if you have nothing to do." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to
read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the
appropriation of their contents." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom." | |
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Found in the topic Trust.
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