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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Topic: Age
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Art is the proper task of life.
Topic: Art
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
Topic: Blame
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Topic: Brevity
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Topic: Certainty
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Topic: Chaos
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Topic: Conformity
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
Topic: Death
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Topic: Earth
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Topic: Education
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
Topic: Fact
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Topic: Faith
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Topic: God
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Topic: God
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Topic: Hope
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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Topic: Life
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Topic: Life
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Topic: Love
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The lie is a condition of life.
Topic: Lying
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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Topic: Lying
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Topic: Memory
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Topic: Morality
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Life without music would be a mistake.
Topic: Music
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
Topic: Music
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We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.
Topic: Opinion
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Topic: Originality
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Topic: Past
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Topic: Pride
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Topic: Spirituality
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Success has always been a great liar.
Topic: Success
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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Topic: Thoughts
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Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
Topic: Truth
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Topic: Walking
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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Topic: War
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
Topic: Weakness
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