It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.Arthur Schopenhauer
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind
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Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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