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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ”
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. ”
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. ”
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ”
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ”
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ”
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ”
The future influences the present just as much as the past. ”
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ”
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. ”