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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

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