War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
From Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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