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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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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.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?