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" Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. "
She
Men
Only
" Another occupation might have been better. "
Occupation
Might
Better
" Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. "
Truth Is
Any
Truth
" It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. "
Wise
Sympathy
Nature
" It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. "
Man
Understand
World
" Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. "
Instinct
Bad
Believe
" One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. "
Cannot
Brains
Suicide
" Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. "
Blood
Cold
Live
" The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. "
Foe
Self-Knowledge
Virtue
" The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. "
Better
Struggle
Force
" The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. "
Care
Who
Man
" The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. "
Which
Book
Fact
" The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. "
Worth
Mind
Own
" There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. "
Cease
Who
Persons
" There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. "
Dislike
Truth
Naked
" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. "
Admire
Secret
Happiness
" The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. "
Evil
Best
World
" True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. "
He
Man
Repeat
" We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. "
Say
Mother
Girl
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