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"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
Desire
"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
Faith
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
Society
"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
Happiness
"Don't forget to love yourself."
Love
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
Life
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
Man
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
Age
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
God
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