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#1

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

tags: deception

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#3

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell;
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

tags: v-3

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#4

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: desire, desires

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#5

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: nietzsche

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#6

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

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

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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#8

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#9

“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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#10

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: irreligion, religion

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#11

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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#12

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: beatitudes

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#13

“Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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#14

“The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

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#15

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling

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#16

“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: graphic-novels, hurting, past, v-for-vendetta

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#17

“I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#18

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#19

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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#20

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: dare, macbeth, man

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#21

“We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: deceit

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#22

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#23

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

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#24

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: deception

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#26

“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.”
― George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III

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#27

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

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#28

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#29

“Ability without honor is useless.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: ability

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#30

“The welfare of the people is the highest law”
― Cicero

tags: de-legibus

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#31

“Kindness is stronger than fear.”
― Cicero

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#32

“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
― Cicero

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