Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

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Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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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.

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