"Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers."
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"Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers."
"I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!"
"How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one."
"Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!"
"The pure soul is a pure lie."
"A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions."
"Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion."
"Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance."
"Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience."
"Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice."
"Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice."
"Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness."
"The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power."
"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
"The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being."
"Man is something to be surpassed."
"One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin."