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Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions.

People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.

Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!

He who does not speak foreign languages knows nothing about his own.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

Association with women is the basic element of good manners.

There will be vices as long as there are men.

The world and life are one.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.