The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect. Joan of Arc
For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding. On The Laws
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. Fragment
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Twilight of the Idols
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