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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Education in those rulers' virtues that master even one's benevolence and pity: the great educator's virtues . . . the affect of the creator must be elevated – no longer to work on marble! – The exceptional situation and powerful position of those beings . . . The Roman Caesar with Christ's Soul.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses

“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
― Voltaire

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
― Voltaire

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche