If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
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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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All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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