#human all too human

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is

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Sometimes in the course of conversation, the sound of our own voice disconcerts us and misleads us into making assertions

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Art raises its head where religions decline. It takes over a number of feelings and moods produced by religion, clasps them

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

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The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_