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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking
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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.
