You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you0 do?) Book VIII
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! Beyond Good and Evil
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. Man's Search For Meaning
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. The Return of the King
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