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If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.Hippocrates
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Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.. .Oswald Spengler
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The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.Oswald Spengler
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What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.Hippocrates
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Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.Hippocrates
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Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.Hippocrates
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To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.Marie Von EbnerEschenbach
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The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals .. .Oswald Spengler