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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.