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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you wi

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. – Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. – Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950

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My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce

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