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[23 Mar 2005|04:09pm] [ mood | cynical ] A criminal is frequently not equal to his deed: he makes it smaller and slanders it.

[14 Feb 2005|11:34pm] [ mood | cynical ] The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

[03 Feb 2005|10:46am] [ mood | cynical ] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

[20 Jan 2005|10:42pm] [ mood | cynical ] The snake that cannot cast its skin perishes. So too with those minds which are prevented from changing their views: they cease to be minds.

[06 Dec 2004|12:02am] [ mood | cynical ] I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

[03 Oct 2004|03:50am] A person behaves with unintentional nobleness when he has accustomed himself to seek naught from others and always to give to them.

[11 Aug 2004|02:44pm] [ mood | cynical ] There are some losses which communicate to the soul a sublimity in which it ceases from wailing, and wanders about silently, as if in the shade of some high and dark cypresses.

[29 Jul 2004|07:35pm] [ mood | cynical ] The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

[22 Jul 2004|10:37am] [ mood | cynical ] A good author possesses not only his only intellect, but also that of his friends.

[21 Jun 2004|10:18am] [ mood | cynical ] If one has character one also has one's typical experience, which recurs repeatedly.

[11 Jun 2004|11:47am] [ mood | cynical ] The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

[19 May 2004|10:44am] [ mood | cynical ] Today the man of knowledge might well feel like God become animal.

[05 May 2004|08:46pm] [ mood | cynical ] One must have a good memory to be able to keep a given promise. One must have a strong power of imagination to be able to feel pity. So closely is morality bound to the goodness of the intellect.

[19 Apr 2004|11:16am] [ mood | cynical ] Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

[19 Mar 2004|11:40pm] [ mood | cynical ] Those who wish to be mediators between two resolute thinkers are marked as mediocre: they lack eyes to see the unparalleled; seeing things as similar and making them the same is the mark of weak eyes.

[05 Mar 2004|11:16am] [ mood | cynical ] Whoever thinks much is not suitable as a party member he soon thinks himself right through the party.

[23 Feb 2004|07:02pm] [ mood | cynical ] Many people wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.

[03 Feb 2004|10:53am] [ mood | cynical ] If curiosity did not exist, very little would be done for the good of our neighbor. But curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. Perhaps there is a good deal of curiosity even in the much-vaunted maternal love.

[22 Jan 2004|10:13am] [ mood | cynical ] Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

[18 Jan 2004|07:16pm] [ mood | cynical ] He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the head of dispute.

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