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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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