The more a man finds his sources of pleasure in himself, the happier he will be.... The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhauer
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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