To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
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