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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

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A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

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A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

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