"A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value."
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"The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing."
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"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
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"Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept."
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"For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt."
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"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them."
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"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."
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"The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . ."
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"In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men."
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"Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!"
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
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"One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people."
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"What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness."
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"But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods."
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"Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself"
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"The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?"
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"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
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"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
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"If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes."
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"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
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