About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. Book VII
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. Omoo
The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism "aut liberi aut libri [either children or books]." Twilight of the Idols
"Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life." Book IV
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