Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose it adheres to us only Because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb it alone really belongs to us.
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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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