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“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

"I suppose everything in existence takes its color from the average hue of our surroundings."

“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”

“Pain and pleasure- they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust…”

“So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick, so long as your own pain drives you, so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels.”

"Very much, indeed, of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion."