Quote #80

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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  1. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
  2. The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
  3. Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
  4. A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is calle…
  5. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
  6. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
  7. Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
  8. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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