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- Who is my master? Whoever controls what you desire or dislike

- When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval
- And who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition then— to win the approval of lunatics?

- We do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it
- Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn’t it be easier to just wipe your nose?
- Ask me what the real good in man’s case is, and I can only say that it is the right kind of moral character