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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.  
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular s...  
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than hi...  
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.  
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,...  
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other peopl...  
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a smal...  
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being ...  
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to r...  
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.   Change
Compassion is the basis of morality.  
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; eve...  
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits o...  
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.  
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the lim...  
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an unce...  
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the worl...  
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude...  
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.  
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.  
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninte...  
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect pro...  
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great h...  
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters ...  
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.  
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.  
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life i...  
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals ...  
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and...  
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a ver...  
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.  
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer c...  
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capa...  
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunt...  
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.  
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of ...  
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive elem...  
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in...  
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things o...  
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be...  
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false...  
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply...  
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the i...  
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received wit...  
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for...  
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems t...  
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.  
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majo...  
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in...  
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that s...   Death
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to re...  
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you hav...  
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.  
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.  
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.  
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other peopl...  
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; ...  
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.  
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his s...  
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with tho...  
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossib...