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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

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Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

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