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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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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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

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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positiv...more

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as bor...more

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What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the ...more