We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . . We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery. Essays
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. Book IV
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness
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