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One has watched life badly if one has not also seen the hand that considerately -- kills.
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Tethered heart, free spirit.-- If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties: I have said that once before. But one does not believe me, unless one already knows it--
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A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa -- blessing it rather than in love with it.
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What? A great man? I always see only the actor of his own ideal.
108
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena--
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The will to overcome an affect is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, affects.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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One seeks a midwife for his thoughts, another someone whom he can help: origin of a good conversation.
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When we are awake we also do what we do in our dreams: we invent and make up the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget it.
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Objections, digressions, gay mistrust, the delight in mockery are signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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To our strongest drive, the tyrant in us, not only our reason bows, but also our conscience.
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Jesus said to his Jews: "The law was for servants -- love God as I love him, as his son! What are morals to us sons of God!"
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In men who are hard, intimacy involves shame -- and is precious.
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From love of man one occasionally embraces someone at random ( because one can not embrace all ): but one must not tell him this--
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In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.
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The vanity of other offends our taste only when it offends our vanity.
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"Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me" --
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"I don't like him," -- Why? -- "I am not equal to him." -- Has any human being ever answered that way?
