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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.