"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
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"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously."
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"Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong."
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"There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil."
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"The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest."
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"If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish."
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"Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another."
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"The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation."
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
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"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness."
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"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
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"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."
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"My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions."
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"For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks."
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"Success has always been a great liar."
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"The free man is a warrior."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful."
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