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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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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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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the t...more

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffe...more

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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shal...more

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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Life presents itself as a continual deception, in small matters as well as in great. If it has promised, it does not keep its word, unless to show how...more

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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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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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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.