"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

Thoreau, Henry David on progress
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on regret
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"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on faults
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"So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on praise
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on excellence
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"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on extremes and extremists
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fanatics and fanaticism
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
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"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on freedom   

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on the future
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it."

Jackson, Reggie on success
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"Live with passion!"

Robbins, Anthony on passion
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."

Smith, Sydney on solitude
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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