"In true love it is the soul that envelops the body."
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
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"Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups."
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"Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage."
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"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
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"One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear."
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"Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit."
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"No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge."
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"It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience."
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"One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other."
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"The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them."
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"We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves."
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"I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system."
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"That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas."
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"Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman."
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"Good prose is written only face to face with poetry."
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"God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!"
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""State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life.""
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"The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive."
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"Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!"
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