Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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