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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Anyone who claims to be to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the dark.

  • 1 John 2:9..
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