"Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph."
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"Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us."
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"If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does."
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"In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty."
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"One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all."
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"The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul."
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"Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves"
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"Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that."
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"Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live"
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"Christianity is Platonism for the people."
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"As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption."
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"The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness."
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"You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!"
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"One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue."
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"All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings."
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"I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition."
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"It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant."
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"What is the strongest cure?--Victory."
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"Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men."
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"In compassionate men, severity is a virtue."
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