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It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

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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 mo...more

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Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace ha...more

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantl...more

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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly un...more

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriati...more

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In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

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Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

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Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

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To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall h...more