Civilization is a transient sickness.

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The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

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He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

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Praise Life

This country least, but every inhabited country
Is clotted with human anguish.
Remember that at your feasts.

And this is no new thing but from time out of mind,
No transient thing, but exactly
Conterminous with human life.

Praise life, it deserves praise, but the praise of life
That forgets the pain is a pebble
Rattled in a dry gourd.

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