The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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