"All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience."
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"I am competing with what I am capable of."
"That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying."
"Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."
"We are all more capable than we think we are."
"Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries."
"Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for."
"That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin."
"To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it."
"Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade."
"You do not hate anyone you are not capable of loving. Remember that."
"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable."
"Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did."
"Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago."
"Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself."
"We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
"Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men."
"Being evil is something that only humans are capable of."