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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."

"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."

"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."

"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."

"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
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