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| #8553 | | The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| #8554 | | The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay.
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| #8555 | | The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He
can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless
existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is
that he has the strength to recognise -- and to live with the recognition --
that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones.
He creates himself by fashoning his own values; he has the pride to live
by the values he wills.
-- Nietzsche
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| #8556 | | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the streets. They have yet to learn
-- only the savage fears what he does not understand.
-- The Silver Surfer
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| #8557 | | The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
-- Nietzsche
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| #8558 | | The things that interest people most are usually none of their business.
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| #8559 | | The three questions of greatest concern are -- 1. Is it attractive?
2. Is it amusing? 3. Does it know its place?
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"
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| #8560 | | The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds
the other fellow of a dull one.
-- Sid Caesar
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| #8561 | | The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
-- Andre Malraux
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| #8562 | | The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
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