Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.
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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.
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A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
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The unfinished is nothing.
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