Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve? Notes from Underground
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. The Hobbit
Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them. Fragment
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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