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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.



To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.



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.



Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.



Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.



Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom



Compassion is the basis of all morality.



Compassion is the basis of morality.



Compassion is the basis of all morality.



With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.



Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.



A word too much always defeats its purpose



A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.



As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.



Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.








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