Margaret's quotes

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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
354 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
338 people liked it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
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"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
241 people liked it

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche
136 people liked it

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
164 people liked it

"God sends meat and the devil sends cooks."
— Thomas Deloney

tags: devil, god, life
2 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,662 people liked it

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
— Voltaire

39 people liked it

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
— Voltaire

55 people liked it

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
— Voltaire

tags: books
34 people liked it

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
534 people liked it

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

244 people liked it

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
— Voltaire

204 people liked it

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

tags: truth
159 people liked it

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
— Voltaire

tags: double, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, standards, war
121 people liked it

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers"
— Voltaire

108 people liked it

"Common sense is not so common."
— Voltaire

tags: common, sense
102 people liked it

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
— Voltaire

tags: god, religion
85 people liked it

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
— Voltaire

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"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

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" "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.""
— Voltaire

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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: disguises, secret
6 people liked it

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