"A thought comes when it will, not when I will."
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"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
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"Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves."
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"An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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"It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life."
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"No one is such a liar as the indignant man."
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"In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies"
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"In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality."
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"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
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"Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance."
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"There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated"
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"Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."
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"The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self."
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"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."
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"How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment."
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"My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal."
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"Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness."
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