"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once."

Harris, Sidney J. on evil
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"The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil."

Proverb, Arabian on evil
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."

Tozer, A. W. on evil
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"Evil spelled backward is live."

Unknown, Source on evil
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Conrad, Joseph on evil
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"The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

Crowley, Aleister on evil   

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on evil
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"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil
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"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil   

"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

Lawrence, D. H. on evil   

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Lerner, Max on evil
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"My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors."

Martin, Tony on evil
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"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

Maugham, W. Somerset on evil   

"Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls."

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on evil   

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

Balzac, Honore De on power   

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"A word after a word after a word is power."

Atwood, Margaret on power
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"Star friendship.— We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbor and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal. But then the almighty force of our tasks drove us apart again into different seas and sunny zones, and perhaps we shall never see one another again,—perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognize each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us! That we have to become estranged is the law above us: by the same token we should also become more venerable for each other! And thus the memory of our former friendship should become more sacred! There is probably a tremendous but invisible stellar orbit in which our very different ways and goals may be included as small parts of this path,—let us rise up to this thought! But our life is too short and our power of vision too small for us to be more than friends in the sense of this sublime possibility.— Let us then believe in our star friendship even if we should be compelled to be earth enemies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship   

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lie
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face."

Baudrillard, Jean on bores and boredom
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"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on bores and boredom   

"Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen."

Bierce, Ambrose on bores and boredom
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

Brenan, Gerald on bores and boredom   

"A yawn is a silent shout."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on bores and boredom
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."

Adams, John on power
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus on power
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Alinsky, Saul on power
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"Power tires only those who do not have it."

Andreotti, Giulio on power
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"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world."

Archimedes on power
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"The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves."

Brown, Thomas Edward on vice
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"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

Butler, Samuel on vice   

"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence."

Butler, Samuel on vice
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"Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated."

Drabek, R. on mathematics
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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"Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data."

Huxley, Thomas H. on mathematics   

"Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred."

Koestler, Arthur on mathematics
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"So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on mathematics