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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.
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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.
The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.
all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber
Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.
Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?
Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.
By space the Universe encompasses and swallows me as an atom, by thought I encompass it.