Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

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  Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

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  There is no shame in being happy.

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  To understand the world, one must sometimes turn away from it.

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  There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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  What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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  Many people complain that their whole life goes by in searching for the meaning of life, which, if it exists at all, lies nowhere else but in the search itself.

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