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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

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Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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War among men defiles this world.

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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

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