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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

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It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

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To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of th...more

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his...more

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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

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Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the nobl...more

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You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!You are treading your path of ...more