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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
[ Solitude ]
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
[ Conflict ]
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
[ Words ]
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
[ Relationships ]
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
[ Change ]
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
[ Perspective ]
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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
[ Vision ]
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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
[ Fame ]
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
[ Greatness ]
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
[ Honor ]
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
[ Action ]
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
[ Marriage ]
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
[ Sacrifice ]
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
[ Detail ]
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
[ Faces ]
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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
[ Character ]
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
[ Fate ]
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
[ Journalism and Journalists ]
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
[ Individuality ]
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
[ Stubbornness ]
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
[ Life and Living ]
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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
[ Politeness ]
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
[ Satisfaction ]
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
[ Style ]
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
[ Curiosity ]
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
[ Age and Aging ]
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
[ Explanations ]
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
[ Mystery ]
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
[ Ideas ]
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
[ Fame ]
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
[ Desire ]
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
[ Certainty ]
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
[ Happiness ]
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
[ Language ]
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
[ Adversity ]
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
[ Books - Reading ]
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
[ Correction ]
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
[ Loneliness ]
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
[ Marriage ]
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
[ Vengeance ]
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
[ Imitation ]
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
[ Greed ]
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