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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
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