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"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."

"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
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"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."

"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."

"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"The maturity of man-that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play."

"If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory."

"Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
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