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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

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Everything matters. Nothing's important.

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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

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