Man is the cruelest animal
German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once
A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.
Vision without execution is daydreaming
Those who make fun of you, those who try to get rid of you, they are the people whose applause you most often seek to obtain.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world
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