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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!