Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Letters
Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way of embracing happiness as if they wanted to crush and suffocate it, from jealousy: alas, they know only too well that it will flee. Beyond Good and Evil
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. The Decay of Lying
But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it. Beware of Pity
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