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Contentment is the only real wealth.

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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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