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Common sense is calculation applied to life.

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 27th, 1821

Died: May 11th, 1881

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