"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
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"Be content to seem what you really are."
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."
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"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."
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"All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature."
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"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
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"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
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"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."
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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
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"The Antichrist, Section 7"
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"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"Courage is a kind of salvation."
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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."
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"There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers"
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"No great thing is created suddenly."
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