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| A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. |
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| A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. |
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| A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. |
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| A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. |
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| Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. |
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| An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. |
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| An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. |
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| An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time |
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| Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. |
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| Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? |
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| Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow |
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| Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. |
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| Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. |
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| Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions |
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| Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. |
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| Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave |
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| Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life |
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| Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots |
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