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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
"There is so much we'll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway."
"The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street."
"Never judge a woman by her age."
"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents."
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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."
"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"
"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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