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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Thomas Mann

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
THOMAS MANN

Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
THOMAS MANN

Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANN

Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

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