To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.Franz Grillparzer
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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