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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Life without music would be a mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Success has always been a great liar.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.