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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

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I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

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Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

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The worse the man, the better the soldier.

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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

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No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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