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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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