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It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it...more

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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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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace ha...more

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriati...more

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The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed...more

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If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

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Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as bor...more