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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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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions ...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

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As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

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

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How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

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

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The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

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

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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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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...more

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Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to win your argument against us, but ...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.