"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Lovers
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enemies
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fights and Fighting
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"A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Inaction
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Lies and Lying
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Love
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Merit
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