Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.

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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

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