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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and ...more

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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I a...more

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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more

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I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

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I have forgotten my umbrella.

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Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

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Plato was a bore.

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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.