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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is always some madness in love.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
