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.

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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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