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

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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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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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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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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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What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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