"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
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"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."
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"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
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"Without passions you have no experience whatever."
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"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health."
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"All great men are play actors of their own ideal."
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"Some men are born posthumously."
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"That which does not destroy, strengthens."
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"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
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"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself."
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"Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?"
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"The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell."
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"This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights."
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"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance."
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"The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man."
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"He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger"
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"The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
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"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
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"I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."
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"God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
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