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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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