“ The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. ”
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“ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”
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“ The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. ”
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“ The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. ”
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“ Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target… which others cannot even see. ”
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“ Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. ”
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“ It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. ”
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“ Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ”
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“ Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ”
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“ A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. ”
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“ A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. ”
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“ Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion. ”
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“ For it may be said, in general, that every man will love or hate solitude — in other words, his own society — just in proportion as he is worth anything in himself. ”
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“ Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ”
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“ Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. ”
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“ Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ”
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“ Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. ”
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“ Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. ”
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“ After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. ”
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“ Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy… Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophize. ”
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