To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Notes from Underground
Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way. Man and His Symbols
“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.” The Prince
The road up and the road down is one and the same. Fragments
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