It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a produc
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The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attach
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is invol
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a mat
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows o
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its
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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose mo
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to
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