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Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

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a man only knows what he's experienced

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.

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It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue...more

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impert...more

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.