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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
 
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
 
The secret to humor is surprise.
 
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
 
Effort supposes resistance.
 
Nessuno vi può dare la libertà. Nessuno vi può dare l'uguaglianza o la giustizia. Se siete uomini, prendetevela.
 
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.
 
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
 
The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
 
Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
 
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
 
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
 
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
 
Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another.
 
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
 
In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
 
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
 
As a man's desires grow cooler, he becomes better equipped to deal with other men or to succeed in society. Nature, with her usual benevolence, has ordained that men shall not learn to live until they lose the motives for living.
 
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry
 
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
 
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