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"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
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