Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

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Anonymous

By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello)

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Albert Einstein

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

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Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

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Jerry Garcia

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

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Jerome K. Jerome

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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Pericles

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

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Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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W. Somerset Maugham

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

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