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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.