A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence. Beware of Pity
“Nothing was more excruciating to the hunger artist than such watchers. They depressed him.” A Hunger Artist
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. Book VI
As a goose is not frightened by cackling nor a sheep by bleating, so let not the clamour of a senseless multitude alarm you. Fragment
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