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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of 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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it...more

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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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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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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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One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with ...more

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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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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.