It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified. Beyond Good and Evil
If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat. Fragments
O! I am Fortune's fool. Romeo and Juliet
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Emma
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