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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs;... →
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a... →
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.