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| "Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| ...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. | | Benjamin Franklin | | |
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| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. | | Benjamin Franklin | | |
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| A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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