Thoughtful Quotes
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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
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How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
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“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
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“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
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“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
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“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
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“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."
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"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
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“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
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“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”
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“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”
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“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
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“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
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“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
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“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
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“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
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“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”
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“No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.”
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“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
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“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.”
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)”
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“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”
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“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”
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“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
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“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
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“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.”
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“I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.”
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