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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.