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" After your death you will be what you were before your birth. "
Death
Will
You
" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. "
Truth
First
Second
" Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. "
Out
People
Spring
" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "
Alone
He
Solitude
" A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. "
He
Man
Want
" A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. "
Man
Enjoy
Looking
" A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. "
Mouth
Thoughts
Man
" 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 will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. "
Value
Small
Knowledge
" Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! "
Thoughts
Try
Money
" Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. "
Situation
Inside
Side
" 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 appropriation of their contents. "
Good
Books
Time
" Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. "
Immortal
Eternal
Change
" Compassion is the basis of morality. "
Morality
Compassion
Basis
" 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. "
Life
Youth
Sleep
" Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. "
Own
World
Vision
" Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. "
Nations
Other
Right
" Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. "
Parting
Reunion
Resurrection
" Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. "
World
Person
Vision
" Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. "
Time
Chance
Uncertain
" For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. "
Same
Fault
Him
" Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. "
Friends
Fortune
Money
" Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. "
Great Men
Great
Build
" Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. "
Great
You
Buildings
" Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. "
Hatred
Heart
Head
" Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. "
Lost
Honor
Must
" Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. "
Fame
Lost
Man
" If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. "
Us
Endure
Ourselves
" If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. "
Know
True
You
" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "
Heart
Wisdom
Work
" In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. "
Rights
Part
Double
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