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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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The doer alone learneth.

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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