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"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."

"A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice."

"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
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