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"Here is your great soul-the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself."
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"If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it."
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