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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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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.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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