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There is in most people a reluctance and unwillingness to be forgotten. We observe even among the vulgar how fond they are to have an inscription over their grave.
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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