Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Don Quixote
That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive. The World As Will and Representation
That man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. Letters from a Stoic
Russia, are you not speeding along like a fiery and matchless troika? Dead Souls
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